Kevin Qu

20, |

Junior CS student at UB, building AI systems and full-stack products. Co-founder of Rally. Currently a SWE intern at the UB CSE department.

Kevin Qu
01Experience
University at Buffalo
  • —Maintaining and scaling an academic TraceTool for CSE 115/116, supporting 500+ students annually and 5,000+ submissions per semester.
  • —Supporting scalability efforts targeting higher concurrency and peak submission reliability across multi-institution deployment.
  • —Improving correctness and consistency of tracing behavior by validating memory modeling with course staff.
Rally
  • —Building a full-stack iOS app with SwiftUI and a Go/Gin REST API, integrating live match stat tracking, AI-powered post-game recaps via OpenAI, and phone OTP authentication via Twilio — deployed on AWS ECS with Terraform.
  • —Engineered location-based match discovery using haversine distance queries in PostgreSQL and built a social system with friends, teams, and roster management across 60+ screens.
Lavner Education
  • —Delivered 20+ workshops across Python, Scratch, Java, C++, AI, game design, and robotics.
  • —Mentored 15–20 students per group through 100+ hands-on coding projects, strengthening debugging and problem-solving skills.
02Projects

Lock-In

Real-time habit detection tracking anxiety-related hand-to-face behaviors via computer vision.

PythonOpenCVMediaPipemacOS Voice APIs
Lovaslide preview

Lovaslide

AI presentation generator turning documents into fact-checked slides via a multi-agent system.

Next.jsFastAPIGPT-5SerpAPI
EDEN preview

EDEN

AI security monitoring across 25+ live camera feeds with real-time incident detection and dispatch.

TypeScriptReactYOLOPyTorchMapboxTwilioOpenAI
03Skills

Java · SQL · AI Engineering · Full-Stack Development · Data Structures & Algorithms · OOP · APIs & Integration

04Extracurriculars

UB Forge

Director of Growth & Community

Apr 2025 – Present

Building a startup-like culture at UB, connecting developers, designers, and founders. Leading weekly showcases and growing the community.

UB Data Analytics Club

Member · 1st Place, Data Analytics Competition

Jan 2025 – Present

Won 1st out of 16 teams (80+ students). Analyzed 20,000+ songs to surface trends between song attributes and viewer engagement.